J.J. Abrams on TV’s Fringe

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TV hitmaker J.J. Abrams has a new series premiering this Tuesday (September 9) on Fox. Fringe is about the weekly investigations of a trio of paranormal investigators –– an FBI agent and a father/son science team to be precise. It begins with a plane crash (that's worked out well for other shows), and reveals deeper conspiracies as the subsequent investigation unfolds.

A sci-fi fan, as evidenced by the previous TV shows he developed (Lost and Alias) and by the fact he was picked to direct the new Star Trek movie (XI), Abrams accepts the legacy of shows like the The X-Files that precede Fringe. There's more than just that swimming around in his mind though.

"I love The Twilight Zone and Nightstalker and Cronenberg films and Crichton movies," Abrams said. "All these things connect in some way and X-Files is right there at the top of the list. It wasn't like, 'Okay, let's do The X Files again.' It was, 'What kind of show is something we would tune in to see?' I thought we would get slammed doing the David Cronenberg/Altered States stuff because for me that was always something I was obsessed with when I was growing up."

Week to week, the show is in the hands of head writes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and producers Jeff Pinkner and Bryan Burk. It's Abrams' name telling people to watch though, and he took a break from editing Star Trek to try to explain Fringe. Like the best episodes of Lost though, it only leaves us with more questions.

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